Ever wonder where the name Anderson came from?  I mean, why that name and not something else?  Could it be from a reference in The Five Orange Pips, where Watson is writing in passing about previous cases and mentions "...the facts concerned with the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson"? 

It's a very slight connection.  If the name of the ship had been Sally Anderson, then I would be a lot more sure the TV names were a nod to the canon!

I read The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet for the first time last night and came across this, which I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet, at least not in this thread, although maybe that's because it's so obvious. 

Said by Sherlock Holmes: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

And in Hounds: "Once you’ve ruled out the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be true."  (Thanks to Ariane DeVere's transcript for this.)

Sheesh, three nods in a row and all from the same episode!  Anyone starting to think I really like this one?!?!?   

Last edited by Sherli Bakerst (June 24, 2012 12:44 am)

Sherli Bakerst wrote:

Ever wonder where the name Anderson came from?  I mean, why that name and not something else?  Could it be from a reference in The Five Orange Pips, where Watson is writing in passing about previous cases and mentions "...the facts concerned with the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson"? 

It's a very slight connection.  If the name of the ship had been Sally Anderson, then I would be a lot more sure the TV names were a nod to the canon!

The name Anderson is mentioned in The Hound of the Baskervilles, chapter Fixing the Nets:
"Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Godno, in Little Russia, in the year ‘66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own."
It's probably just a coincidence, but it is still funny - Anderson? A murderer? LOL

And the twist is that they end up getting something quite nasty in their lungs.

I have always enjoyed watching the John and Sherlock giggle fit in the palace in A Scandal in Belgravia.   I have been re-reading The Sign of the Four,  and came across this passage,  a completely different context of course,  but still,  this could have served as a stage direction:   

"Sherlock Holmes and I looked blankly at each other,  and then
burst simultaneously into an uncontrollable fit of laughter."

I'm reading 'The Adventure of the Prior School' and I'm thinking...is this where the idea of the children being kidnapped from the boarding school comes from in TRF?

I've been keeping an extensive document with all the references in (yes I'm that sad). When I've completed the whole canon I will maybe post them all up here. But for now I'll just give you these examples from the Musgrave Ritual, some of Watson's descriptions of Holmes:

•    “…one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow lodger to distraction.â€
•    “cigars in the coal scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece…â€
•    “…when Holmes was in one of his queer humour he would sit in an arm chair, with his hair trigger and a hundred boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic VR done in bullet pocks.â€
•    “Our chamber were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics, which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter dish, or in even less desirable places.â€

You can see where they've appropriated some of these for the series.

Oh and the text Sherlock sends from John's phone at the beginning of Pink is from a canon story too
"If brother has green ladder, arrest brother SH"

Can't remember the story but it's got something to do with accessing a house via a green ladder.

There's no green ladder in the canon.
Ladder in the Copper Beeches but not a green one.

In The Valley of Fear they misidentify a corpse with a destroyed face (Mr.Douglas) just like they misidentify a corpse in A Scandal in Belgravia (Irene).

The drug from Hounds of Baskerville is taken from The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.

I've also been wondering about Kitty Riley the journalist.
In The Adventure of the Illustrious Client there's this fierce young women Kitty Winter who want's to destroy Baron Gruner's reputation. Kitty Riley destroys Sherlock's reputation in The Reichenbach Fall.
And in both stories newspapers spread wrong information about Sherlock. In Illustrious Client the public is made to believe that Sherlock's almost dying and in Reichenbach that he is actually dead.